travis-hdl

Demonstrating continuous integration of hdl codes using travis-ci

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Fortunately there are more and more open-source FPGA projects. There are some open testing frameworks, testing libraries, there are open simulators for hardware descriptor languages. There are several hosted continuous integration service. But none of them supports HDL codes natively. This repository shows a workaround to test opensource FPGA projects continuously.

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Pre-requirements

I used the following tools:

• VHDL language
• UVVM open-source VHDL testbench infrastructure (optional)
• GHDL open-source simulator for the VHDL language
• Docker virtualization software
• Travis-CI continuous integration service
• Github to store your open source project.

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Structure

Now there are only two simple hdl source folder:

• hello_world contains the ghdl's hello world example.
• adder contains the ghdl's adder example, which has a DUT and a testbench.

The compiler and runner scripts located inside the source folders beside the source files. These scripts are called by the docker, which can run on travis-ci.